In the 90s, Emir Kusturica said he earned more with the commercials he directed than with his films…

To change his mind, but also after the The polemic 'Underground' when Emir Kusturica had announced he would retire from cinema, he some several commercial films. Emir Kusturica continued this experince ever after since he seemed to enjoy the exercise.

There is thus a whole filmography of TV commercials relatively unknown which makes part of his work.

Some commercials are broadcast in “realvideo” streaming. To see these films, you need the Real One Player plug-in , available here.

The film called “Parisienne People by Emir Kusturica” has a very sophisticated visual and a music of Goran Bregović ; we see jugglers in a fire atmosphere. The camera moves slowly in this strange place, between a circus and an underground bar.

Shot shortly after Underground, we find in this film the Flight theme, a Kusturica's classic. The film takes place in Mongolia. The shooting was a true expedition of 16 days in the land of Genghis Kahn. Scenes were shot in typical mongolian tents, in Ulan Bator, and in the Gobi desert.

Strongly impressed by the landscapes and the mongolian people, with deep nomad roots, Emir Kusturica even told them he would one day come back to make a feature movie there…

These two ads show persons obsessed by the little details that can spoil the living… In the first film, a girl watches a gorgeous sunset on the sea when a boat passes in front of it ; and in the other one, a man is furious because a rebel hair refuses to get dressed properly.

The message is to say that even for this kind of people, Renault Occasion shall satisfy their customers in every detail…